Re:The SF Anti-Mask League of 1919
by makomk on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:48AM
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What happened in Germany is weird. The Italian outbreak seems to have originated there, but for some reason it was much worse then the German one, and I don't think Germany had the kind of widespread testing back then that they do now and the total number of cases they were reporting seems a little low for them to be exporting cases.
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They did do a lot of testing compared to other EU nations like the UK which was even slower to start testing. I too am puzzled by their very different figures and extensive testing seems to be the answer (500k tests per week) - the UK is still not testing in the community in contrast and is doing far fewer tests. This is the only major difference I can think of.
https://bgr.com/2020/03/26/coronavirus-testing-explains-germ...